At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao divided the north and formed the largest Wei power group at that time, and such meritorious achievements were inseparable from the planning of the strategists. As we all know, Cao Cao's most powerful strategist was none other than Guo Jia.
Guo Jia, the character Fengxiao, has been particularly intelligent since he was a child, and everyone thinks that he is the reincarnation of Jiang Taigong, and people around him call him "Little Taigong". Therefore, he is also quite high-profile as a person, and his friends are all big people with heads and faces, and the nameless generation cannot see Guo Fengxiao, who is also quite arrogant and has a bold personality.
Guo Jia is not the kind of talent who works hard the day after tomorrow, and his talented start is very high. He also took a fancy to Yuan Shao, who had a high starting point at the beginning, yuan shao the fourth and third dukes, and his talents were abundant, and his career was as good as day and day. However, Guo Jia saw that Yuan Shao was narrow-minded and had the benevolence of a woman, so he left him categorically and met Cao Cao through Xun Yu's introduction. Guo Jia has the vision of a good politician, he looks at the hero who chases the deer, and from the chaotic world, he firmly believes that Cao Mengde, who has the martial arts of Wenzhi, can finally calm the world and thus achieve his own meritorious name. Guo Jia is different from Xun Yu, he is a real person, and he will take into account his own interests in everything he does, rather than empty and empty.
Guo Jia did not have any particularly great ambitions, and sought only debauchery of glory and wealth, so it was very easy for Cao Cao to meet his conditions. Therefore, Cao Cao can also use his talents with confidence and boldness, but no matter how much Cao Cao trusts Guo Jia, until his death Guo Jia is just a military master sacrificial wine, can he really be the "top strategist" of the legendary Cao Cao camp?
I don't think Guo Jia has the ability to be a top strategist. In the early days of entrepreneurship, Guo Jia and Xun Yu were both Cao Cao's right and left arms, and it was obvious that Xun Yu had more credit for the planning of the general policy, such as "holding the son of heaven hostage to order not to be subordinate". It was the Battle of Guandu that determined Cao Cao's fate, and Guo Jia's "ten wins and ten defeats" theory is very famous, but in my opinion, there are many "rainbow fart" components in it. What really affected Cao Cao's determination to win was Xun Yu's letter, and the specific planning of that war was attributed to Xun You. That is to say, although Guo Jia is brilliant in wisdom, he did not play a decisive role and could not talk about the title of top strategist.
There is a saying that "Guo Jia does not die, and wolong does not come out". What is said is that after Guo Jia's death, Zhuge Liang dared to go out of the mountain, and I think this can only be explained by nonsense. Guo Jia's life and death can determine when Zhuge Liang will come out of the mountain? Cao Cao and Guo Jia were very close, making his career smooth, but more of this depended on Cao Cao's great talent and his solid strength. And Zhuge Liang followed Liu Bei, which really didn't start from anything, but Wolong brought Liu Bei the possibility of overturning, and indeed achieved one of the three points of the world. And Guo Jia may not have the ability to assist Liu Bei in his rise, and even I think that Guo Jia's mentality does not look at Liu Bei as a poor egg.
As for Guo Jia's wisdom, this thing is really difficult to say. Because the opponents are different, the war background is different, the battle intention is also very different, it is not easy to compare, if you have to talk about the high and low, it is just a bar. Some people say that if Guo Jia didn't die so early, the world would definitely belong to Cao Wei, then of course, what is assumed out can be blown no matter how it is. Jia Xu is a smart person, and he didn't give a strategy to unify the world in the end, so in that situation, what can Guo Jia do?
Finally, I would like to say that guo jia is far inferior to Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Zhou Yu and others in that he has never commanded the army alone to fight, and the rest of them are all masters who can fight well and make good decisions. So you said that Guo Jia's military ability is very strong, it is really a bit far-fetched, he is more like a low-grade version of Zhang Liang, giving advice to the leader, and several other military experts who can make their own ideas.
Therefore, I think that Guo Jiayan is exaggerated, just a top strategist living in the imagination!
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